Anders Kraal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1295849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anders Kraal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anders |
| FAMILY NAME | Kraal |
| SIGNATURE | KRAAL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Luther's necessitarian argument in De servo arbitrio
In De servo arbitrio (1525) Luther famously argues that the divine attributes of will, power, foreknowledge, and immutability are incompatible with (human) free will, and hence that free will is a ‘name with no reality’. I survey some earlier explications of Luther's argument in the literature, and reject them as exegetically unsound. I then go on to propose a new explication. On the proposed explication, Luther's argument turns out to be theolog…
Valla-Style Determinism and the Intellectual Background of Luther's De servo arbitrio
This paper argues that the Renaissance philosopher Lorenzo Valla's De libero arbitrio (1439) appears to anticipate Luther's De servo arbitrio (1525) on several key issues. This thesis was defended in the 1940s by the well-known Renaissance scholar Charles Trinkaus, who expressed regret over the fact that modern interpreters of Valla's dialogue had “failed to see its connection with the Reformation.” As we shall see further on, however, Trinkaus's…
The aim of Russell’s early logicism
Himma on the Free-Will Argument
In two recent articles in this journal Kenneth Himma has launched an attack on what he describes as the ‘two versions’ of the Free-Will Argument, the first of which he describes as ‘the standard’ version and the second of which he identifies with Plantinga's Free-Will Defence in God, Freedom, and Evil (1974). In this article I argue for three main claims: (i) that Himma's objections against ‘the standard’ Free-Will Argument are directed at a stra…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
This guide accompanies the following article: ‘Logic and Divine Simplicity’. Philosophy Compass 6/4 (2011): pp. 282–294, doi: 10.1111/j.1747‐9991.2011.00386.x Author’s Introduction First‐order formalizations of classical theistic doctrines are increasingly used in contemporary work in philosophy of religion and philosophical theology, as a means for clarifying the conceptual structure of the doctrines and their role in inferential procedures. But…
Logic and Divine Simplicity
The paper surveys two contrasting views of first-order analyses of classical theistic doctrines about the existence and nature of God. On the first view, first-order logic provides methods for the adequate analysis of these doctrines, for example by construing 'God' as a singular term or as a monadic predicate, or by taking it to be a definite description. On the second view, such analyses are conceptually inadequate, at least when the doctrines …
The Status of Logic in Christian-Zen Buddhist Dialogue
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The Status of Logic in Christian-Zen Buddhist Dialogue
Teaching & Learning Guide for
This guide accompanies the following article: ‘Logic and Divine Simplicity’. Philosophy Compass 6/4 (2011): pp. 282–294, doi: 10.1111/j.1747‐9991.2011.00386.x Author’s Introduction First‐order formalizations of classical theistic doctrines are increasingly used in contemporary work in philosophy of religion and philosophical theology, as a means for clarifying the conceptual structure of the doctrines and their role in inferential procedures. But…
Logic and Divine Simplicity
The paper surveys two contrasting views of first-order analyses of classical theistic doctrines about the existence and nature of God. On the first view, first-order logic provides methods for the adequate analysis of these doctrines, for example by construing 'God' as a singular term or as a monadic predicate, or by taking it to be a definite description. On the second view, such analyses are conceptually inadequate, at least when the doctrines …
Himma on the Free-Will Argument
In two recent articles in this journal Kenneth Himma has launched an attack on what he describes as the ‘two versions’ of the Free-Will Argument, the first of which he describes as ‘the standard’ version and the second of which he identifies with Plantinga's Free-Will Defence in God, Freedom, and Evil (1974). In this article I argue for three main claims: (i) that Himma's objections against ‘the standard’ Free-Will Argument are directed at a stra…
The aim of Russell’s early logicism
Valla-Style Determinism and the Intellectual Background of Luther's De servo arbitrio
This paper argues that the Renaissance philosopher Lorenzo Valla's De libero arbitrio (1439) appears to anticipate Luther's De servo arbitrio (1525) on several key issues. This thesis was defended in the 1940s by the well-known Renaissance scholar Charles Trinkaus, who expressed regret over the fact that modern interpreters of Valla's dialogue had “failed to see its connection with the Reformation.” As we shall see further on, however, Trinkaus's…
Luther's necessitarian argument in De servo arbitrio
In De servo arbitrio (1525) Luther famously argues that the divine attributes of will, power, foreknowledge, and immutability are incompatible with (human) free will, and hence that free will is a ‘name with no reality’. I survey some earlier explications of Luther's argument in the literature, and reject them as exegetically unsound. I then go on to propose a new explication. On the proposed explication, Luther's argument turns out to be theolog…
Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Theology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Theology and Philosophy of Evil (4 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (2 works) · Doctrine (2 works) · Free Will and Agency (2 works) · Simplicity (2 works)